Lord Marshal Dreir
SWORD: what Lord Marshal Dreir kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 70 pts kill ~24 pts in one activation.Typical melee unit: 55 per 100
Best against hordes, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· melee units
SHIELD: how hard Lord Marshal Dreir is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 70 pts take ~229 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical melee unit: 307 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
In Astra Militarum
Across the game· melee units
What reviewers say
6 reviewers- Cheap orders for Death Riders 3 of 6
- Makes Death Riders genuinely threatening 2 of 6
- Too dear for what he adds 3 of 6
- Death Riders hit harder without him 2 of 6
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lord Marshal Dreir70 pts | C | Bottom 10% | Top 40% | 2of 88 |
| Commissar Graves on Foot65 pts | C | Bottom 27% | Bottom 3% | 8of 88 |
| Nork Deddog60 pts | C | Top 1% | Top 16% | 11of 88 |
Leading a squad
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 34 | 68 |
| SHIELD | 327 | 295 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then for it and the squad together.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Lord Marshal Dreir, 70 pts, with its datasheet's weapons, in Grizzled Company. On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras. Counted as dice: the army rule and the detachment's rule.
SWORD
Enemy points it kills in one activation, per 100 pts of its own, against a mix of targets weighted like top tournament lists.
70 pts → kills ~24 pts → 34 per 100SHIELD
Enemy points it takes to kill it, per 100 pts of its own: the points of the cheapest units from top lists that kill it 80% of the time. It's per point, so a costly unit has to be much tougher to score the same.
~229 pts → 327 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 572 melee units. How we score.
The letter
The average of 6 reviewers' newest Astra Militarum tier lists: Mordian Glory (smash or pass, every datasheet) (22 Oct), Euan 40k (unit tier list after the September update) (7 Oct), Goonhammer / tabletopbattles.com (September dataslate review, Competitive Innovations: 2 full Guard lists and 5 summaries, 3 to 30 Oct) (30 Oct), Auspex Tactics (unit tier list, and the 20 Oct winning-lists video) (5 Sep), Battleborn 40k (dataslate winners and losers, one Guard player) (1 Oct), 1d6chan (community 11th-edition tactics wiki, August points) (30 Oct). A reviewer who would rather not be counted: tell us.
Lists
88 public Astra Militarum tournament lists, September – November 2026, from grimstat-corpus (CC BY 4.0). Also from Listhammer. Organisers and players: ask us and we'll take a list or an event down. Numbers run 2 Nov.